Social life cycle assessment: in pursuit of a framework for assessing wood-based products from bioeconomy regions in Germany

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 651-662

  Siebert, Anke ^a   Bezama, Alberto ^a   O’Keeffe, Sinéad ^a   Thrän, Daniela ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b DBFZ DEUTSCHES BIOMASSEFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy region; Framework; sLCA site specific; Social life cycle assessment; Wood based products

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOBASED ECONOMY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; WOOD;

EID: 84958744847     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-016-1066-0     Document Type: Article

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